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2 hours ago, royal white said:

Just giving folk like yourself some hope. After 14 years of austerity you can now save a penny on a pint. Lucky lad 👍

Should be giving folk like you hope too, but as Cheese says, you’re disappointed it’s not been a car crash.

After 14 years of austerity I can now save a penny on a pint. I might have a couple down the pub, whilst reading tomorrow’s papers telling me about the £22bn going to the NHS, the £7bn to schools, the increase in minimum wage and pensions, the additional funding for affordable housing and the improved rail services in the north. That departure from austerity.

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14 minutes ago, Jol_BWFC said:

Should be giving folk like you hope too, but as Cheese says, you’re disappointed it’s not been a car crash.

After 14 years of austerity I can now save a penny on a pint. I might have a couple down the pub, whilst reading tomorrow’s papers telling me about the £22bn going to the NHS, the £7bn to schools, the increase in minimum wage and pensions, the additional funding for affordable housing and the improved rail services in the north. That departure from austerity.

Sounds like quite the life. Amazing 

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21 minutes ago, SatanGreavsie said:

Just checked and the first reference to the phrase "bogwank" on here came from me in April 2005. I made it up and can't find any earlier Google refs to it. Should I be emailing the OED to claim a new word? Be on Call My Bluff before you know it (one for th'owd 'uns).

Robert Robinson: "So, 'Bogwank'. Is it an expensive, Vatican-approved cheese made from nun's milk; a Viking leader who stormed the Isle of Man in 970 AD; or a description of something as useful as a five fingered glove in Colne? Frank Muir..."

Absolutely mentle 😂😂

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1 hour ago, Jol_BWFC said:

Should be giving folk like you hope too, but as Cheese says, you’re disappointed it’s not been a car crash.

After 14 years of austerity I can now save a penny on a pint. I might have a couple down the pub, whilst reading tomorrow’s papers telling me about the £22bn going to the NHS, the £7bn to schools, the increase in minimum wage and pensions, the additional funding for affordable housing and the improved rail services in the north. That departure from austerity.

Will they do it though, that is the question, 

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On 29/10/2024 at 13:42, Zico said:

Or search for a back street dentist 

 

 

On Bommy day next week I will be having my 2nd of 3 scheduled appointments at the dentist. 4 figures it's costing me to have all the work done. A fucking grand and some more!

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59 minutes ago, Underpants said:

On Bommy day next week I will be having my 2nd of 3 scheduled appointments at the dentist. 4 figures it's costing me to have all the work done. A fucking grand and some more!

Nip down to the CDS mate. Half the  price. I can recommend one.

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8 hours ago, Underpants said:

On Bommy day next week I will be having my 2nd of 3 scheduled appointments at the dentist. 4 figures it's costing me to have all the work done. A fucking grand and some more!

I'm fortunate so far that I've never had to have any serious dental work done 

Used to have a dental client on King Street in Manc, did all the cosmetic stuff for Utd players, charged a fortune 

Did some work for me for free, standard stuff but had I been paying it would've cost a small fortune at his prices

Used to do Cahill's dental website in Bolton too, nowhere near as expensive but still not cheap

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8 hours ago, Underpants said:

On Bommy day next week I will be having my 2nd of 3 scheduled appointments at the dentist. 4 figures it's costing me to have all the work done. A fucking grand and some more!

A few years ago my wife needed plenty of dental work and it was about £1700 by the time we’d done. It was affecting her mental health so she didn’t go out for ages.

She had the bad stuff taken out in LL and a new complete set done in Bolton. Included after care and took a couple of months to do. 

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11 hours ago, Jol_BWFC said:

Should be giving folk like you hope too, but as Cheese says, you’re disappointed it’s not been a car crash.

After 14 years of austerity I can now save a penny on a pint. I might have a couple down the pub, whilst reading tomorrow’s papers telling me about the £22bn going to the NHS, the £7bn to schools, the increase in minimum wage and pensions, the additional funding for affordable housing and the improved rail services in the north. That departure from austerity.

That penny off a pint mght seem a boon, but it also means you'll have to sup 100 pints before you save a pound. And the savings on your first hundred and odd pints will go on your paper. Unless you get the free paper off the bus. Where your fare has gone up by, yes, a pound.

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9 minutes ago, FrancisFogarty said:

That penny off a pint mght seem a boon, but it also means you'll have to sup 100 pints before you save a pound. And the savings on your first hundred and odd pints will go on your paper. Unless you get the free paper off the bus. Where your fare has gone up by, yes, a pound.

The bus fare cap was going to end on Jan 1st anyway, which would have seen fares rise a lot more than a pound.

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38 minutes ago, Cheese said:

The bus fare cap was going to end on Jan 1st anyway, which would have seen fares rise a lot more than a pound.

Yeah, perhaps Kier could have let it go back to the days where even a short journey was £3 or more and no fucker used the buses.

People mock the penny off a pot and yes, it's gimmicky, but it's better than a penny (or more) on a pint, surely?

They reckon the country drank 600 million pints during the Euros, so that would be a net saving of £6m to the nation from one event alone.

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2 hours ago, Zico said:

I'm fortunate so far that I've never had to have any serious dental work done 

Used to have a dental client on King Street in Manc, did all the cosmetic stuff for Utd players, charged a fortune 

Did some work for me for free, standard stuff but had I been paying it would've cost a small fortune at his prices

Used to do Cahill's dental website in Bolton too, nowhere near as expensive but still not cheap

The only reason I went the dentist was because one of my back teeth got a chip in it. I didn't want any issues with gum disease so best have it checked out.  Need a cap on it. That is the biggest expense. Add on a couple of fillings and my vanity issues and that's were all the expense comes from. My old dentist has retired so I had to register as a new patient. That pumped the price up too. Apparently my new dentist is a bit of a celebrity. She's been on one of these fly-on-the-wall hospital documentaries, so she says. Anyway, the upshot of this is that I've knocked on the head my away games for a bit.

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2 hours ago, FrancisFogarty said:

That penny off a pint mght seem a boon, but it also means you'll have to sup 100 pints before you save a pound. And the savings on your first hundred and odd pints will go on your paper. Unless you get the free paper off the bus. Where your fare has gone up by, yes, a pound.

The price of the pint makes no material difference (although if someone offers a pint for £6.50 or the same pint for £6.49 I’d rather pay £6.49). The bizarre thing was a fellow poster’s reaction to the announcement.

As it happens I’m in Turkey this week, so no paper or bus fare. Just a few Efes by the pool.

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2 hours ago, Cheese said:

The bus fare cap was going to end on Jan 1st anyway, which would have seen fares rise a lot more than a pound.

I bet everyone can guess how much the Tories had in their plans to renew this.

They are slagging off Labour for not renewing a policy that Labour have renewed with an uplift in price that they had no intention or plans to renew. They are a joke. 

 

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12 hours ago, Underpants said:

On Bommy day next week I will be having my 2nd of 3 scheduled appointments at the dentist. 4 figures it's costing me to have all the work done. A fucking grand and some more!

My missus is having her Teeth straightened as they growing weirdly looking at nearly £4K. Mine are staying crooked. 

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17 minutes ago, Ani said:

I bet everyone can guess how much the Tories had in their plans to renew this.

They are slagging off Labour for not renewing a policy that Labour have renewed with an uplift in price that they had no intention or plans to renew. They are a joke. 

I see they also pledged compensation for victims of the Infected Blood and Post Office scandals, but didn't budget for it whatsoever. No wonder they called an early election.

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4 minutes ago, Cheese said:

I see they also pledged compensation for victims of the Infected Blood and Post Office scandals, but didn't budget for it whatsoever. No wonder they called an early election.

Shocking by the Tories. The more that comes out it is more apparent that they were doing a scorched earth policy for the next government.

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43 minutes ago, Farrelli said:

Shocking by the Tories. The more that comes out it is more apparent that they were doing a scorched earth policy for the next government.

There was a journalist from the left wing rag the Sunday Times saying they called the Election as despite how bad things were they were going to get worse.

Not just the headline stuff about 'the boats', NHS and the economy but prisons would still be over full, the compensation mentioned above, public sector pay awards (not budgeted for at all !) the list just goes on.

My personal gripe at the Inland Revenue systems was also mentioned in budget. It has been good to hear some journalists to point out the line 'fastest growing economy in the g7' related to one very short period not over any longer period it ain't true.

Reeves is doing the rounds today and the message that this is a budget for a decade not just till they need another election is being pushed , not seen the numbers to back that up. 

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